Why can't I Quell The Beast?

[DatOneGuy]

Sometimes what happens is that you get hit while performing sting like a bee or the like and the intensity ends up at 0.5 or some shit that doesn't show but makes it not count for quell.

[MagicManICT]

I think your problem might be that after you quell'd the beast on the first go, you attacked him in some way to get aggro to quell it again. However, you can not do this, and attempting to do this will reset the animal back to 0 tameness and will not allow you to use quell for a few minutes.

With this case, a herd (aurochsen or mouflon), you can aggro another member of the herd again if you walk away and break combat. This makes it easier to tame two at once as long as there are 3 or more in the herd. Don't attempt to aggro the one you're trying to tame, or you'll have to start back over as fallout has said.

[Girlinhat]

Sometimes animals just bug like that. I made a sport of taming from as early as I could, and observed some... probably 1 in 5-6 animals will randomly experience a bug that messes with the taming. This can be artificial too, in case you quelled one beast, and then attacked a DIFFERENT one. The herd dynamics acts rather strangely with taming... Then there's the occasional bugged taming that simply refuses to work for whatever reason as well.

[rozn]

You might need to move a few pixels to the characters left (west). Sometimes you can do combat moves, but can't actually get in to perform the Quell.

There are some other bugs with it still other than damaging the animal. My mind is all fuzzy, though, so if someone else doesn't post some ideas, I'll try to toss a few more up later.

I'm afraid the paranoia got the better of me. I decided to kill them all, rather than waiting for another answer, before somebody came along and popped a hole in my fence.

Did you re-attack it after you quelled the first time?

[omenran]

I think your problem might be that after you quell'd the beast on the first go, you attacked him in some way to get aggro to quell it again. However, you can not do this, and attempting to do this will reset the animal back to 0 tameness and will not allow you to use quell for a few minutes. What you are supposed to do after quelling for the first 20 tameness is wait for it to re-aggro you (yes he will do this all on his own) which could take 5-20 minutes. However this could not be the case but it probably is unless you prove otherwise

Actually with a herd, you can walk away to loose aggro for the entire herd and then attack a different auroch to get the one you're taming to attack you quicker and don't have to wait for it to re-aggro naturally. I haven't gotten the technique to tame 2 at the same time down yet though, so there's probably a still more efficient way.

If you attack the one you're trying to tame, it will screw the taming up for sure.

[Malenkoe_Zlo]

I think your problem might be that after you quell'd the beast on the first go, you attacked him in some way to get aggro to quell it again. However, you can not do this, and attempting to do this will reset the animal back to 0 tameness and will not allow you to use quell for a few minutes. What you are supposed to do after quelling for the first 20 tameness is wait for it to re-aggro you (yes he will do this all on his own) which could take 5-20 minutes. However this could not be the case but it probably is unless you prove otherwise

Actually with a herd, you can walk away to loose aggro for the entire herd and then attack a different auroch to get the one you're taming to attack you quicker and don't have to wait for it to re-aggro naturally. I haven't gotten the technique to tame 2 at the same time down yet though, so there's probably a still more efficient way.

If you attack the one you're trying to tame, it will screw the taming up for sure.

I think that attacking the same animal you tame was the problem, as it's an easy mistake to make on first attempt. However, you don't lose tameness points. Just walk away, wait for de-aggro, return and first use any move on an animal you don't tame. After that you can proceed with taming.
And by attacking i mean anything that starts a fight, not the actual attack like "Punch". Call down the thunder - Quell won't work. Used any close combat move from afar and quickly clicked on ground to avoid actually doing it - Quell won't work. Pulled hair and it angered that fluffy cow - Quell will work.
Another easy mistake is forgetting that your rope is used all the time you tame. If you started taming one animal, got 20 tame points, then decided to tame another animal, you won't be able to do it because your rope is "tied" to first one. De-equip rope (i drop it to the ground to be extra sure, and i don't remember if simply putting it in inventory works), then equip it back to "untie" a rope.

Sometimes what happens is that you get hit while performing sting like a bee or the like and the intensity ends up at 0.5 or some shit that doesn't show but makes it not count for quell.

No, it works on 0.5 intensity just fine.

[DatOneGuy]

I've had several encounters say otherwise.
The advantage was 5, so it wasn't that

[Jackard]

you cant quell the beast

the beast inside you